TY - JOUR
T1 - Pots of Gold at the End of the Rainbow
T2 - What is Success for Open Source Contributors
AU - Trinkenreich, Bianca
AU - Guizani, Mariam
AU - Wiese, Igor Scaliante
AU - Conte, Tayana
AU - Gerosa, Marco
AU - Sarma, Anita
AU - Steinmacher, Igor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
IEEE
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Success in Open Source Software (OSS) is often perceived as an exclusively code-centric endeavor. This perception can exclude a variety of individuals with a diverse set of skills and backgrounds, in turn helping exacerbate the current diversity & inclusion imbalance in OSS. Because ones perspective of success can affect ones personal, professional, and life choices, to support a diverse class of individuals we must first understand how OSS contributors understand success. Thus far, research has used a uni-dimensional, code-centric lens to define success. In this paper, we challenge this status quo to reveal OSS contributors multifaceted definitions of success. We do so through interviews with 27 OSS contributors whose communities recognize them as successful, and a follow-up open survey with 193 OSS contributors. Our study provides nuanced definitions of success perceptions inOSS, which might help devise strategies to attract and retain a diverse set of contributors, helping them attain their unique pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
AB - Success in Open Source Software (OSS) is often perceived as an exclusively code-centric endeavor. This perception can exclude a variety of individuals with a diverse set of skills and backgrounds, in turn helping exacerbate the current diversity & inclusion imbalance in OSS. Because ones perspective of success can affect ones personal, professional, and life choices, to support a diverse class of individuals we must first understand how OSS contributors understand success. Thus far, research has used a uni-dimensional, code-centric lens to define success. In this paper, we challenge this status quo to reveal OSS contributors multifaceted definitions of success. We do so through interviews with 27 OSS contributors whose communities recognize them as successful, and a follow-up open survey with 193 OSS contributors. Our study provides nuanced definitions of success perceptions inOSS, which might help devise strategies to attract and retain a diverse set of contributors, helping them attain their unique pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
KW - Analytical models
KW - career
KW - Data analysis
KW - Data models
KW - Engineering profession
KW - Gold
KW - Interviews
KW - open source software
KW - Open source software
KW - qualitative analysis
KW - success
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U2 - 10.1109/TSE.2021.3108032
DO - 10.1109/TSE.2021.3108032
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85114645233
JO - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
JF - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
SN - 0098-5589
ER -